Star Wars

The Middle of the Track

source: Wall Street Journal

The rest of the cast, which includes Joel Edgerton (who is best known over here for his appearances in the "Star Wars" prequels) as Stanley Kowalski, ...

Published Thu, Dec 3

Cate Blanchett shines in stellar 'Streetcar'

source: New York Daily News

Edgerton, of "Star Wars" prequels, mixes boyishness, brutishness and beefcake to make Stanley a worthy opponent. Battle lines are drawn the minute she ... and more »

Published Thu, Dec 3

Looking back at the 2000s: Movies

source: lfpress.com

The 00s saw the release of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings adaptations, a couple Star Wars prequels, the Spider-Man films, and a couple reboots of the ... and more »

Published Wed, Dec 2

Natalie Portman's "Weird" Reason for Hooking Up With Thor

source: E! Online

First, there were the Star Wars prequels. Now, there's Thor. So what exactly attracts an Oscar-nominated actress to comic-book fare? ... and more »

Published Mon, Nov 23

EUbits: Mocking the mockable, Vader delayed, Stackpole on ‘Sues,’ Ostrander on Legacy, comic previews

source: Club Jade

Embrace the pain. Inspired by the latest in transparent rumor-mongering, Cracked puts their well-worn Wookieepedia bookmark to use to come up with five reasons the Star Wars sequels would be worse than the prequels. As an EU fan, I say… Well, yeah. It’s easy to be hard on the prequels, but we c...

Published Sat, Oct 24

The Most Expensive Movies Of The Past Decade

source: io9

One thing jumps out at me: There were apparently no budget busting movies in 2000, 2001 or 2002. Apparently the first X-Men movie, which came out in 2000, had a budget of only about $75 million. And the Star Wars prequels, hideous though they were, were apparently on the cheap side, costing ar...

Published Mon, Sep 21

10 Movies That Really Ruined Our Childhood

source: blog.spout.com

By the time the Star Wars prequels arrived, George Lucas had already ruined our childhoods with his re-release of the original trilogy, each film updated with ill-fitting special effects, remastered soundtrack and some plot alterations in order that the trilogy could be “the way it wa...

Published Tue, Aug 4

Ridley Scott to Helm a Disappointing Alien Prequel. Today in Film Bloggery 07/31/09

source: blog.spout.com

John at The Movie Blog agrees that prequels aren’t cool, but he’s more optimistic now that Scott’s at the helm: ones were let downs. With prequels, you already know certain things will happen… and certain things won’t happen… which takes a lot out of a story for me…

Published Fri, Jul 31